Tea Party

Yesterday we got dressed up in costumes and had a real tea party. We made toast with butter and jelly and put lemonade in the tea pot and I let the girls pour their own glass. They thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I told them to get dressed up and Reese ran for this dance costume and Saige shouted in a loud bossy voice "I need my flip flops". That girl LOVES her shoes. They put a feather boa and a crown on me as well. I love how simple they are. We do so many fun things and this was the highlight of their day.

Best play costume EVER

Could she be ANY cuter???

This was suppose to be Reese's dance costume for her recital. We ended up leaving dance class because her teacher felt Reese wasn't as "seasoned" as the other dancers (who were 3-5 years old) She was very nice and I dont think she meant any harm but telling me that my three year old needs private lessons wasn't something that we exactly liked hearing. We wanted dance to be a fun, positive experience. Having someone think my child needs to "keep up" with the others in such a way wasn't what we wanted. Preschool ANYTHING should not be so competitive. So we quit and moved on to other things. But we got to keep the costume since it was already paid for. Isn't it the most adorable thing ever? She hasn't taken it off. She LOVES IT!!!

Beach

We took the girls on a last minute beach trip. We have never really done this with them so we thought it would be fun to go before the heat index gets to 120 and the beach is packed with summer kiddos. On the way down there Reese was very excited and kept talking about getting in the water. When she saw the waves she just knew the white caps were the whales tail. :)

But when we got out of the car the size of the ocean must of been a bit overwhelming. She instantly HID behind our car and started to cry. We just left her there to warm up to the idea of the beach and she finally came closer.





The beach was covered in seaweed. And then behind/below the seaweed was a ?ditch? of water. Ya know, the kind with the yucky stuff you don't normally want your child playing in. Well thats were Reese stayed the entire time. She did enjoy building sand castles, finding seashells and eventually she walked over and literally put her TOES in the ocean. She did not like the waves coming in and out and later told us the ocean was trying to take her away. I showed her how to write in the sand too. We fed the seagulls some crackers. She acted like they were scaring her but they weren't AT ALL! She kept throwing crackers closer and closer so they would come to her and she was smiling the whole time saying "shoo birds". She looked at me and one point and said "I really love the beach mommy don't you". So, I guess she had fun in her own way.






Saiges trip to the beach was totally different than Reese's. True to form she went right for it. We kept having to watch her VERY closely because she would just run into the ocean without either one of us. NO fear at all. She loved having the waves on her. The water would knock her right in the face and she'd say "do it again do it again" She wasn't out of the water much. I'm not a big water fan (or our water anyway because you can't see anything) so Aaron stayed in the water with her while I did the other stuff with Reese. One time Aaron said she was walking and a wave took her under water a little. I'm glad I didn't see that. :)






But heres a sweet one of the girls together.

Saige is always surprising me

My mom kept Saige for me this weekend. She does this all the time but usually has to bring Saige back to our house to nap because shes always been a "bad sleeper." She once cried from San Antonio to Houston nonstop. She didn't sleep through the night until she over a year. She would just cry and cry. So thats why we don't even attempt to mess with Saige's sleep problems. We have never even gone out of town. Shes a total mess :)


Well my mom decided to show off and try to get my hard/bad sleeper to nap at her house in her bed (no pack n play, no crib, nothing excpet some bedrails and a baby monitor) and she did it. She put her in there at 1:00 and she said she talked/played for about 20 minutes and fell asleep.

Heres the best part though. Saige LOVES her "baby". Its a security blankey she has slept with since maybe 6 months? and she still uses a paci. My mom forgot them at our house. She went to the store and bought her a new one and she took it? And slept for 2 hours. in a strange bed. with a strange baby. strange!!!

Julie and Chris's wedding.

We had a wonderful time. Reese was the flower girl so we got to go to all the events together. We got all dressed and went to the bridal luncheon, then later we went to Julie's penthouse suit and hung out. Reese got to take a bath in the BIGGEST tub ever. So fun! Later we went to the rehearsal and then to the rehearsal dinner. At the rehearsal Reese listened to the priest really well and did what he told her. By the time we got to dinner Reese was TIRED and HUNGRY!!!!!! She was AWESOME though! She ended up going home around 10 and was tuckered out.


The following day we got a hair done and Reese loved every second of it. They curled her hair and she drank OJ from a champane glass. She was in girly heaven. I swear she'd would love it if I mad her a pagent kid LOL! Kara stayed with us all day on Saturday as well. She helped get us in and out of the car. She helped with Reese while I was getting my hair done. I couldn't imagine doing that without her. Shes the BEST!


After the hair we went back to Julie's sisters loft and hung out. Poor Reese was tired, antsy and ready to do something LOL! I kept trying to make her stay still because her hair was falling. But she was so great.

At the wedding she rocked it. She walked down the aisle and stood very still. It was a long wedding so we sat and she went to sit with her daddy and aunt KK. At one point I looked at her to say hello and she held out her hands for me to hold her and made a face like she was going to burst into tears. Aaron ran out of the church quickly. He said they went outside and picked up leaves and dirt. :) She was so ready to move and play. By the time the wedding was over she didn't even want to take pictures but held out for another few minutes.

At the reception Reese begged Daddy to dance with her and rolled around on the floor LOL! Aunt KK took her home around 9 and she went to sleep in about 5 seconds in the car.

We felt so blessed that Julie wanted us in her special day. Reese was so well behaved and did a wonderful job!

Now heres a few pictures...


We did it this tight so that it would fall...it worked out great! But isn't she cute with the tight curls. Love her!!









I LOVE this one!















Heres Reese at the reception...DONE! Crawling around on the floor LOL

Wedding Photos

We are so so tired. My sister has a lot more pictures that I will get and share asap. Here are the few that I have. Reese did awesome and a flower girl and was a total trooper. More to come later...

Jello Anyone?

Reese's school has the parents provide snack each day. We all take turns. Today was my turn and I had "special" snack, which means I had to get with the teacher to see what she wanted me to bring. Normally it goes with the unit they are doing. They were making ocean cups. She asked me to bring jello already in the cups, grahm crackers, and gummy fish. I think jello in a cup? Like jello shots? I've never ever ever bought jello cups so yes, I went there. And to make it even better last night at 8:00 I went to the store and bought two packages of blue jello and DIXIE CUPS! I get home and MAKE the jello and POUR IT INTO THE CUPS. Not once did I think this seemed odd. Not once did I think about the individual cups that are sold in the store. Yes, I made tiny jello shots for the kids in dixie cups. Aaron even helped so this might be also his fault LOL!!! We put the jello in the fridge and went to bed.

Now, I did have a LONG day with a million and one things floating through my brain so maybe thats why I had no common sense?

As I was laying in bed this morning very early I started thinking of how I was going to get 20 dixie cups (I made extra) into the school with my girls, a bag of the rest of the snacks, backpack. I seriously shot up and thought OH NO!!! I MADE THEM ALL WRONG!!! I woke Aaron up and told him. He was not amused that I woke him up for that.

I got up and went straight to walmart and guess what I found. Jello. In a cup.


Thank you Lord for saving me the embarrassment of walking into Reese's school with 20 jello shots.

Seriously. Whats wrong with me?